Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-15
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. FOUR YEARS IN SING SING The Penalty For Jake
 Sharp's Crimee TEEMER WINS AN EAsYRAeE A Young Bride Takes Her
 Life. THE FALL OF THE BASTILE. No Agreement Yet On The
 Elevated.
THE FALL OF THE BASTILE.
JAKE SHARP GETS FOUR YEARS

' 0~-~AAS 1 Hut Secures a stay of Proceedings Which Will Keep Him Out of Sing
 Sing a Short Time Longer.
 NEW YORK, July flake Sharp present. ed pitiful sight when he was brought into court this morning to receive his sentence All through the small hours of the night Sharp tossed about in his bed and could not sleep. About o'clock he arose and made
 his toilet. Mrs. Sharp had to dress him al- most as she would child Shortly after Warden Heating sent in some milk, which
 Sharp hardly tasted. He remained sitting in
 his reclining chair with his wife beside him
 flaming him until the hour came at which
 he was to start for the court house. He was
 escorted from the jail to the carriage await
 ing to convey him down town by the deputy
 sheriffs. Mrs. Sharp accompanied her hus-
 band and entered the carriage with him. A
 deputy sheriff sat on the box beside the dri-
 yer. It was 11:30 o'clock when the carriage
 drove away from the jail, and just twenty
 minutes later 1t stopped before the county
 court house. The party alighted and passed
 through the path made for them by the po-
 lice through the waiting crowd of curious spectators to the sheriff's office, and thence
 to the court room. Sharp was so weak that in going into the court house and up the stairs to the court room it was necessary for the officers guarding him to support his tot tering form. Judge Barrett arrived at the court house at almost the same moment as the prisoner. Sharp took but little notice of anyone, but sank into chair with an air of utter exhaustion and sat silently with hvid face, bowed head and clasped hands at the table before the bar. A moment after the court was called to order. The prisoners counsel made many points in favor of new trial, all of which were ruled to be inadmissible by Judge Barrett. Dis trict Attorney Maritime then stood up to move the court to sentence the prisoner. He stated he considered it his duty to ask the court to appoint physicians to look into the prisoners condition of health and read some certificates from Drs. Allen McC. Hamilton and Janeway to the effect that the prisoners health was very bad and that he was suffer ing from diabetes, inflammation of the kid neys and organic disease of the heart, which were of serious import to man of seventy years. He then read Dr. Hamilton's report on the condition of Sing Sing and the ar- rangements for the care of sick, which he said were of most excellent character all around, and the place was most healthily sit uated. "In view of these facts,' concluded MT. Maritime, "there is nothing for me to do but move for the sentence of the prisoner" Judge Barrett then proceeded to deliver the sentence. He said that he had never per formed so delicate task in his whole pro IJo had lat ters from many people pleading for mercy, and others pleading for justice. But court was not appointed to be merciful, any more than was dictated by the laws of justice. A judge is appointed to award penalty in &C., cordance to the offense, when all the circum. the offense have been duly weighed and con sidered. The defendant here in asking for mercy can give nothing as plea for clemency but age and sickness. On the merits of the case he certainly is entitled to none. It is absurd to state that he is notguilty of giving the bribes as he was unmistakably the leader of the whole affair. We have not here as in the case of the aldermen any attempt to prove the defendants good character. The crime itself was an enormous one, the raising of half million of dollars to corrupt half legisla- ture. Judge Barrett reviewed the corrupt action of the defendant in forming bogus  nue railway, of which he was director, and alluding to the defendants securing a mill lion dollars of profit as sheer larceny, for which he could have been indicted just well as for bribery. Judge Barrett hen sen fenced him to imprisonment in State prison for four years, and to pay fine of $5,000. The old man received his sentence sitting and with his face buried in his hands.
 Judge Potter this afternoon granted stay of proceedings in the Sharp case. The order was returnable in the Supreme court on Monday next. It was served on Sheriff Grant at once The order directs the district attorney to show cause why there should not be permanent stay of proceedings. The stay was granted on afidavits by Sharp's counsel that they needed more time to pre- pare bill of exceptions and that Judge Bar. rett had said that he was too i'll to give his attention to the matter of stay.
 The notice of appeal to the court of ap- peals in the case of John ONeill, one of the convicted aldermen now in Sing Sing, was filed to-day.